Maria Beatriz Fonseca Corrêa do Lago, better known as Bia Corrêa do Lago (Rio de Janeiro, April 3, 1958) is a Brazilian writer, journalist and researcher.[1] She is the daughter of writer Rubem Fonseca, who was awarded the highest literary award in the Portuguese language – the Prêmio Camões – and is the author of numerous books, including Agosto, O Caso Morel, O Cobrador, and Bufo & Spallanzani.[2][3][4]
Biography
editBia Corrêa do Lago was born and lives in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a degree in psychology from PUC and has authored various texts about Frans Post and 19th-century photographers.[5][6] Since 2001 she has written and hosted the show Umas Palavras [pt] produced by Canal Futura, where she interviews playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, composers, dramatists and other public figures who deal with the written language.[7][8][9] In 2009, together with her husband, Pedro Corrêa do Lago, she won the highest award in Brazil for an art book – the Prêmio Jabuti – for Coleção Princesa Isabel - Fotografia do Século XIX.[10] Names interviewed on her television program include Mario Vargas Llosa, Oscar Niemeyer, José Saramago, Rachel de Queiroz, Ferreira Gullar, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Salman Rushdie, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Millôr Fernandes and Gilberto Gil. In 2012 she published Umas Palavras - 15 entrevistas memoráveis, with compilations of interviews selected from the first ten years of her show.[11] A television screenwriter, she co-authored the telenovela Tempo de Amar on TV Globo (Sept. 2017 – March 2018).[12][13]
Private life
editBia Corrêa do Lago is married since 1994 to Pedro Corrêa do Lago, a Brazilian author, publisher and art historian. She has two sons from a previous marriage.
References
edit- ^ Laécio Ricardo (August 19, 2006). “Bate-papo literário. Archived 2017-10-06 at the Wayback Machine” Retrieved on January 14, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ "O Caso Morel" é o próximo título Folha de São Paulo July 13, 2003 Retrieved on Jan. 14, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ “Sou um homem idiossincrático” afirma Rubem Fonseca na ABL, Folha de São Paulo, 16/07/2015. Retrieved Jan. 16, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ “Bendito fruto entre os Fonseca”, O Globo, 7/05/2011. Retrieved January 16, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ "WorldCat Identities: Lago, Bia Corrêa do" Retrieved on Jan. 14, 2018.
- ^ Frans Post: Catalogue Raisonné. Retrieved Jan. 14, 2018.
- ^ "Canal Futura faz programação para dia da mulher" Feb 6, 2005. Retrieved on Jan 14, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ "Antonio Torres no programa "Umas Palavras" Nov 23, 2012. Retrieved on Jan 14, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ “O jornalismo literário na televisão”, Estadão, 27/05/2006. Retrieved January 16, 2018 (in Portuguese)
- ^ Prêmio Jabuti 2007. (in Portuguese)
- ^ "Da tela para a estante: Bia Corrêa do Lago lança livro no Rio de Janeiro" Sept. 23, 2012. Retrieved on Jan. 14, 2018. (in Portuguese)
- ^ "Bia Corrêa do Lago pode estrear como autora de novelas na Globo" Nov. 11, 2015. Retrieved on Jan. 14, 2018. (in Portuguese)
- ^ “História de família de Rubem Fonseca inspira novela”, Folha de São Paulo, 17/09/2017. Retrieved January 16, 2018 (in Portuguese)